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CONTAINING 



f{ Cijt of permaQept ai^d 76n\porary F^esidt^^tj, 5ti'<?et Dire(;tory, 

So<;ieti^s, I^eli^iou5 5erui(^es, |^istorieal apd Bio($rapl?i(;al 

SKetel?^s, U/re<^Ks, etq., I^ailroad ar?d St<?am- 

boat Jim^-Sables, etc. 



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PUBLISHED BY 

(TY MRS. J. S. RUSH. , , (: 



Entered according to act of Congress, in the year I'-^gi, 

By MRS. J. S. RUSH, 

in the office of the Librarian of Congress at Washingtor. 



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HON. SIMON LAKE. 



REV. E. B. LAKE. 





REV. S. W. LAKE. 



REV. T. E. LAKE. 



PREFACE. 



Believing that Ocean City is destined to rank among the first of 
summer resorts of the New Jersey coast, and in response to a 
desire frequently expressed by our citizens and visitors, we have 
endeavored to set forth in as compact form as possible, many of its 
most interesting and important features. 

As this is the first effort made in the direction of a Guide Book 
and Directory, the compilation has been tedious and difficult, and 
there may be errors and omissions, which we ask our readers to 
overlook. The constantly changing population of a seaside resort 
renders accuracy almost impossible except for a short period. We 
believe, however, the book to be so complete as to be of great 
advantage to our citizens, our summer residents and transient 
guests. The demand has already secured for it a large circulation. 

We are indebted for information contained in the historical 
sketches to the marine official records of the coast, the " Historical 
Collections" of the state, and to the older residents, the Life 
Guards, Sailors and Fishermen of Southern New Jersey. 

Much credit is due the talented artist W. Edwards, late of 
Lynchburg, Va., for the fine views photographed for the work, 
and the Crosscup & West Engraving Co., Philadelphia, for the 
handsome engravings on copper-plate. 



officers. 



Mayor, G. P. Moore, office, 835 Asbury ave. 



coUNcm. 

J. Conver, office, 443 West ave. 

N. Corson, office, 653 Asbury ave. 

F. P. Canfield, office, W. cor. Sixth st. and Asbury ave. 

J. C. Steelman, office, 1259 Asbury ave. 

Clerk, H. B. Adams, office, E. cor. Eighth and West. 

Collector and Treasurer, H. G. Steelman, 705 Asbury ave. 

Assessor, R. Ludlam, 823 Asbury ave. 

Marshal, H. Conver, 711 Asbury ave. 

Coroner, A. E. Cox, S. cor. Eighth st. and Asbury ave. 

Freeholder, W. Lake, N. cor. Fourth st. and Central ave. 



BOfll^D OF HEflliTH. 

President, J. S. Waggoner, 731 Asbury ave. 

C. A. Campbell, 813 Asbury ave. 

S. Schurch, S. cor. Seventh st. and Asbury ave. 

P. Murdock, 8o5 Asbury ave. 

J. C. Steelman, 1259 Asbury ave. 



UUflTER DEPAHTJVIEISIT. 

President, Rev. E. B. Lake. 




REV. J. B. GKAW, D.D., 
President Ocean City Association. 



First (T). ^. ($l7iJrGl?, 

Eight St. and Central ave. Rev. W. A. Massey, Pastor. 

Services — 10.30 a.m., 8.00 p.m. 
Sunday School, 2.30 p.m. G. P. Moore, Supt. 
Christian Endeavor, 6.30 p.m. Miss M. Lake, President. 
Devotional Meetings, Tues., Wed., Thurs., Fri., 7.30 p.m. 
Ladies' Aid Society. Mrs. D. W. Bartine, President. 

/^ijditoridjn), C^amp (Jrotir^d. 

Camp Meeting and other religious services during summer months. 

U/oma9'5 Ql^ristiai} 5(?mperaF7ce drjioQ. 

Miss Alice Canfield, President. 

BijildJQ^ Coap pssociatioi}. 

Officers — Pres., G. P. Moore; Sec, Wm. Lake ; Treas., R. H. Thorn. 
Directors — H. Steelman, G. Ang, S. Miller, G. O. Adams, J. Brower, 

S. Sampson. 

5ecr(^t Societies. 

Junior Order United American Mechanics. Knights of Pythias. 

Brass Bai^d. 

H. G. Steelman, Leader. 

Cife-SauJQ^ Stations. 

1. Ocean City, Capt. J. S. Willets. 

2. Peck's Beach, Capt. L. Godfrey. 

3. Corson's Inlet, Capt. C. D. Stephens. 



Directory. 



Adams H B, real estate, 411 Fifth st ; ofifice, E cor Eighth st and 

West ave. 
Adams J T, " Traymore," S cor Ninth st and Wesley ave. 
Adams W W, stone mason, Asbury ave, bel Tenth st. 
Adams G O, stone mason, 1057 West ave. 
Allen E, Asbury ave abv Fourth st, also Frankford, Pa. 
Allen & Hughes, 444 Asbury ave. 
Atvvood P C J, 1233 Central ave, also Phila, Pa, 



Bamford A E Mrs, 443 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Baner M, W cor Sixth st and Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Barrows A D, N cor Thirty-fourth st and Asbury ave. 

Barber W A, Ocean City, Manager Atlantic Steamboat Co. 

Bartine D W, M D, 717 Wesley ave. 

Bartine W, 717 Wesley ave. 

Barnett B G, Asbury ave abv First st, also Camden, N J. 

Barnhurst W, 161 2 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Bardsley S, 1204 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Bassett S, 930 Wesley ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 

Bebee S, Ocean ave abv Fourth st, also Frankford, Pa. 

Beriners A Mrs, "Atlantic Villa," N cor Seventh st and Ocean ave, 

also Phila, Pa. 
Bethany S S, " Ocean Rest," N cor Thirty-second st and Wesley 

ave, also Phila, Pa. 
Bennett J, hauling, W cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 




MAYOR C;. p. MOORE. 




MAYOR MOORE'S RESIDENCE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 7' 

Bingham B C, Simpson ave bel First st, also Camden, N J. 

Borgner H C, "Allaire," S cor Sixth st and Central ave, also Leba- 
non, Pa. 

Borie C, Asbury ave abv First st, also Frankford, Pa. 

Boyle W E Mrs, 429 Wesley ave. 

Breckley G N Capt Sr, Central ave bel 8th st, also Washington, D C. 

Breckley G N Jr, painter, 310 Fourth st. 

Briggs J, stone mason, 1127 West ave. 

Brower J, painter, store Asbury ave abv Seventh st, res S cor Third 
st and Central ave. 

Brower Jos, S cor Third st and Central ave. 

Brown T J, Central ave abv First st, also Atlantic City, N J. 

Bryan J T, 1249 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Brucker E, E cor Tenth st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Bourgeois E A, rest 808 Asbury ave, res S cor Ninth st and Cen- 
tral ave. 

Bourgeois G A, carpenter, 420 Central ave. 

Burroughs R, painter, E cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. 

Burley Jos, " Vandalia House," Central ave abv Eighth st. 

Burley A, carpenter, W cor Fourteenth st and West ave. 

Burt J, Wesley ave bel Ninth st, also Bridgeton, N J. 

Burrell W H Rev, Ocean City, N J, also 43 Cooper st, Camden, N J. 

Burnley C W Rev, 924 Wesley av^e, also Williamsport, Pa. 

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Campbell C A, store and res 813 Asbury ave. 

Canfield J T Rev, " Illinois," W cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. 

Canfield H D, " Illinois," W cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. See adv. 

Canfield F P, councilman, " Illinois," W cor Sixth st and Asbury ave. 

Carson J R, 1205 Central ave, also Camden, N J. 

Carhart S, painter, W cor Twelfth st and Asbury ave. 

Champion F E, rest and res N cor Seventh st and Asbury ave. 

Champion M, teamster, 405 Seventh st. 

Champion I, carousel, res Asbury ave abv Seventh st. 

Champion J, builder, "Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 

Champion Q, painter, "Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 



8 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Chance J C, Asbury ave abv First st, also Vineland, N J. 

Chew W, carpenter, West ave abv Thirteenth st. 

Christ A E Mrs, Central ave bel Sixth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Clark J, E cor Seventeenth st and West ave, also May's Landing, N J. 

Clawell D, N cor Seventeenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Clelland M C, 822 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Clifton J, plasterer, Simpson ave bel Second st. 

Collins S, 1408 West ave, also Seaville, N J. 

Colver A H, "The Emmett," W cor Eighth st and Central ave. 

Conver J, councilman, store 623 Asbury ave, res 443 West ave. 

Conver H L, store and res 71 1 Asbury ave. 

Corson M, life guard, 833 Asbury ave. 

Corson N, councilman, 653 Asbury ave. 

Corson Y, store and res 721 Asbury ave. 

Corson O, painter, 721 Asbury ave. 

Corson J I Rev, N cor 5th st and Central ave, also Bargaintown, N J. 

Corson F R, M D, N cor nth st and Central ave, also Merchantville. 

Corson J M, 1632 Central ave, also Palermo, N J. 

Cowperthwait S S E, 1220 Central ave, also Camden, N J. 

Cotton A, 433 Asbury ave, also Frackville, Pa. 

Cox A E, " Wesley House," W cor Eighth st and Wesley ave. 

Cox L, machinist, " Wesley House," W cor Eighth st and Wesley ave, 

Coxey J C, E cor Fourteenth st and Asbury ave, also Camden, N J. 

Cronin W D, plasterer, " Dolphin," 1046 Asbury ave, 

Currey W B, Central ave abv Fifth st, also Phila, Pa, 

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Davis J H, Atlantic ave bel Fourth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Davis W A, M D, N cor First st and Central ave, also Camden, N J. 

Davis N, M D, ¥. cor First st and Asbury a\^e, also Camden, N J. 

Davis J T, N cor First st and Asbury ave, also Camden, N J. 

Demaris A, hackman, E cor Twelfth st and West ave. 

Dixon J, Central ave abv Fourth st, also Phila. 

Dobbins G L Rev, 922 Wesley ave, also N J Conf 

Doughty C, 431 Asbury ave, also Atlantic City, N J. 

Downs J S, " Perennial," 810 Central ave. 




EX-MAYOR J. E. PRYOK, M.D. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Edowes T, "Home Cottage," 1414 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Edwards C E, D D S, 809 Wesley ave, also Haddonfield, N J. 

Elliot W R, Central ave abv Third st, also Frankford, Pa. 

Elvvell W H, Sta Agt W J R R, res S cor 8th st and Asbury ave. 

Emerson W D, 1606 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

English E B, builder, 915 Asbury ave. 

English S Mrs, 915 Asbury ave. 

English J A, 629 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Esher E H, 1620 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Eves Misses, 708 Central ave, also Media, Pa. 



Fenstermacher G, Wesley ave abv Eighth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Fletcher M Miss, 117 Asbury ave. 

FanelH T, laborer, 328 West ave. 

Foulds H, W cor Fourth st and Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Fisher R, real estate, N cor Seventh st and Wesley ave. 



Gandy J G, store 74S Asbury ave, res W cor 8th st and Asbury ave. 

Gandy O M, painter, W cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 

Garland W G, 640 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Garwood S P, carpenter, 418 Wesley ave. 

Garrison W R, life guard, 831 Asbury ave. 

Garrison S O Rev, 1658 Central ave, also Vineland, N J. 

Gerlach H, cor Sixteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Gilbert A G, painter, Asbury ave abv Third st. 

Glickert R, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Godfrey W, bath-house, res 629 Asbury ave. 

Graham F R, M D, W cor loth st and Wesley ave, also Chester, Pa. 

Griffith A E Mrs, M D, W cor i6th st and Central ave, also Phila. 

Griffith L R Mrs, W cor Seventh st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 



lO OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

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Hagle W, Asbury ave bel Sixteenth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Haines H, S cor Ninth st and Wesley ave, also Mt. Ephraim, N J. 

Hand J F, builder, 721 Central ave. 

Hayes N, carpenter, 825 Asbury ave. 

Headley L, carpenter, 829 Asbury ave. 

Heisler H Miss, "Aldine," Wesley ave abv 9th, also Mt. Holly, N J. 

Henderson J C Capt, 447 West ave. 

Hess U Y, teamster, 1224 Asbury ave. 

Hillman J P, Asbury ave bel Twelfth st, also Camden, N J. 

Hickey D W, Cond W J R R, Asbury ave abv Eighth st. 

Hoffman B, carpenter, 1241 Asbury ave. 

Houck W Capt, Wesley ave abv Sixth st. 

Huckle W Rev, 602 Wesley ave, also New York. 

Hudson D, Haven ave abv Second, also Millville, N J. 

Hunter T, Ocean ave abv Second st, also Phcenixville, Pa. 

Hutchinson J H Rev, "Aldine," Wesley ave abv 9th st, also N J Conf. 

Hyde Mrs, "Lafayette," W cor 1 3th st and Central ave, also Vineland, 

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IngersoU B, carpenter. Central ave bel Sixth st. 

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Jeffries J H Capt, 347 West ave. 
Jeffries J B Capt, 347 West ave. 
Jeffries M, pound-keeper, 347 West ave. 
Jeffries Geo Capt, 347 West ave. 
Jackson M Mrs, laundress, 326 West ave. 
Jones W, 437 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
Joseph A Mrs, 40S Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 

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Kendrick J R, 820 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 
King C, Asbury ave bel Fourth st. 
Krouse G, 305 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
Kynett A G Rev, 1233 Central ave, also Phila Conf. 
Kynett H H, M D, 1225 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 
Kynett A J Rev, 1229 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Lake W, real estate, N cor Fourth st and Central ave. 

Lake D E, builder, 1628 Asbury ave. 

Lake M Capt, 450 West ave. 

Lake E B Rev, real estate, E cor Fifth st and Wesley ave. 

Lake H Mrs, 413 Fifth st. 

Lake S W Rev, Ocean City, also N J Conf. 

Lake J E Rev, Ocean City, also N J Conf. 

Lake J T, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Pleasantville, N J. 

Lee I Capt, 939 Asbury ave. 

Lennig G G, Simpson ave bel First st, also Phila, Pa. 

Lee J W, store and res Asbury ave bel Seventh st. 

Lewallen J, barber, 711 Asbury ave. 

Linn J, 324 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Loder E B, S cor Twelfth st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Lonobough J C, 1212 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Ludlam R, assessor, 823 Asbury ave. 

Mahoney D, 1643 West ave, also Phila. 

Mapps W R, 141 6 Asbury ave, also Long Branch, N J. 

Marter H H, 934 Asbury ave, also Camden, N J. 

Massey W A Rev, 716 Asbury ave, also N J Conf 

Marshall A, 712 Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Matthews C, Ocean City, also Phila, Pa. 

McAllister J C, Asbury ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 

McAleese J, 1409 Asbury ave. 

McGuire J H, Wesley ave abv Eighth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Miller P Capt, 726 Asbury ave. 

Miller W Capt, 726 Asbury ave. 

Miller S B, carpenter, 733 Central ave. 

Miller C G, engineer W J R R, 1640 Asbury ave. 

Moore G P, mayor, 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore E, painter, 835 Asbury ave. 

Moore M, slate-roofer, 835 Asbury ave. 



OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 



Morey J K, carpenter, Central ave bel Eighth st. 

Morris, A Mrs, 404 Asbury ave. 

Morris J B, fisherman, 727 West ave. 

Morris R Mrs, store and res 714 Asbury ave. 

MuirD S, cor Fourth st and Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Murdock J, 215 Asbury ave. 

Murdock P, 806 Asbury ave. 

Myers C Esq, N cor Eighth st and Wesley ave. 

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Newkirk B, expressman, S cor Fourth st and Asbury ave. 
Nelson A, W J R R, 717 Asbury ave, "Ocean City House." 
Noble G N Mrs, 722 Asbury ave. 
Nevvcomb H O, Wesley ave bel Ninth st. 

Palen G E, M D, 825 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Paxson Misses, W cor Sixth st and Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Pierce O, Ocean City, also Phila, Pa. 

Price J T, "Ocean City House," 717 Asbury ave. 

Price B D, Atlantic ave abv Fourth st, also Phila. Pa. 

Pryor J E, M D, E cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 

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Ranck A B Mrs, "Allaire," S cor Sixth st and Central ave. 
Raney A W Mrs, 409 Fifth st, also Frankford, Pa. 
Rapp R, Central ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 
Rapp J V R, Central ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 
Rapp F, store and res 756 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
Radcliff J Y, 749 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 
Reinhart H, engineer W J R R, 917 Asbury ave. 
Reed J, Asbury ave abv Fourteenth st, also Camden, N J. 
Rice E L, 1213 Asbury ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 
Risley L Capt, W cor Seventh st and Central ave. 
Risley W Capt, Asbury ave abv Fourth st. 
Risley D Capt, 7 1 1 Central ave. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. I3 

Robinson J, 726 Asbury ave, 

Robinson R C, office 744 Asbury ave, res 721 Asbury ave. 
Roberts Mrs, M D, 604 Wesley ave, also New York. 
Rush J S, painter, office E cor Ninth st and Asbury ave, res 219 
Wesley ave. 

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Salter J G, S cor Fourteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Sampson S B, builder, 305 Fourth st. 

Sampson D, tinsmith, Asbury ave abv Fourth st. 

Sanderlin B H, Wesley ave bel Eighth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Schenck E Mrs, 656 West ave, also Millville, N J. 

Schermerhorn C H, 1237 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Schuff" J, baker, W cor Asbury ave and Seventh st. 

Schurch S, " Bellevue," S cor Asbury ave and Seventh st 

Schmitt F, E cor Tenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Schultz H G, Asbury ave bel Sixteenth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Scull J C, carpenter, 727 Asbury ave. 

Scull A D, builder. Central ave abv Seventh st. 

Shaw T, E cor Fifth st and Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Sharp A D, hackman, 1 10 Asbury ave. 

Sharp C B, hackman, 1 10 Asbury ave. 

Sharp E J, carpenter, no Asbury ave. 

Sharp W, carpenter, West ave abv Second st. 

Sheets S, painter, 825 Asbury ave. 

Shriver W, 1221 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Sipler M H Miss, 708 Asbury ave. 

Smith L S, store and res 1 140 Asbury ave. 

Smith J W, butcher, 644 Central ave. 

Smith B R, painter, store Asbury ave bel 6th st, res 1059 West ave. 

Smith F, milkman, Asbury ave bel Third st. 

Smith E, Asbury ave abv Fourth st, also English Creek, N J. 

Smith E, 1447 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Smith H D, 1209 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Sorriers E Capt, 424 West ave. 

Snyder F, store and res Asbury ave abv Eighth st. 



14 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

Sooy R R, " Brighton," Seventh st and Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Sooy N, West ave bel Fourth st, also Phila, Pa. 

Stewart W C, 626 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Steelman H, store and res N cor Fourth st and Asbury ave. 

Steelman H G, store 705 Asbury ave, res 420 Central ave. 

Steelman J C, councilman, 1259 Asbury ave. 

Steelman R, " Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 

Steelman M Mrs, 911 Asbury ave. 

Still J, Asbury ave abv Ninth st. 

Still L W, Asbury ave abv Ninth st. 

Stites R B, lumber, 759 Asbury ave, 

Stonehill W, stone mason, 1 159 Asbury ave. 

Sutton H C, baggage master W J R R, Central ave bel Eighth st. 

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Thatcher J W, W cor Thirteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Thatcher J, M D, 728 Ocean ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Thegan W, Central ave abv First st, also Camden, N J. 

Thomas L R Prof, Wesley ave abv Eighth st. 

Thomas A B, S cor Fifteenth st and Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa, 

Thomas J, 1228 Asbury ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 

Thompson R, Simpson ave bel First st, also Phila, Pa. 

Thorn R H, store and res S cor Eighth st and Asbury ave. 

Tilton C M, rest and res Bay ave abv Fourth st. 

Tweedale S Rev, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Frankford, Pa. 

Turpin J B Rev, Asbury ave bel Fourteenth st, also Gloucester, N J. 

Tuttlfi C P, D D S, Asbury ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa.' 

Voss J, carpenter, 730 Asbury ave. 

Vangilder E Mrs, 1419 Asbury ave, also Petersburg, N J. 

Waggoner J S, M D, store and res 731 Asbury ave, 
Walton B F, West ave bel Fourteenth st, also Camden, N J. 
Warner F B, carpenter, 1428 Asbury ave. 




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DR. PALEN S COTlAi.h.. 




DR. PALEN's cottages ON THE OCEAN FRONT. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 15 

Watson C H, grader, West ave abv Fifth st. 

Wert C M, store and res 713 Asbury ave. 

Whitaker W C, 1230 Asbury ave, also Bridgeton, N J. 

Whiteside F R, 1236 Asbury ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Willets J S Capt, N cor Seventh st and Central ave. 

Williams T P, Asbury ave abv First st. 

Williams C J, 423 Wesley ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Willets S Mrs, West ave abv Seventh st. 

Wilcox J N Mrs, 842 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Willoughby W, West ave abv First st, also Phila, Pa. 

Wood H M Miss, E cor Asbury ave and West st, also Phila, Pa. 

Wolf J, coal, res "Sea Breeze," 704 Central ave. 

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Zeigler £,717 Central ave, also Phila, Pa. 

Zane W S Rev, 1208 Asbury ave, also N J Conf. 



There are a large number of houses the names of whose occu- 
pants do not appear. These cottages are occupied by different 
tenants every year, perhaps by several in a season. This fact pre- 
cludes the possibility of securing a very large percentage of our 
summer residents. 



l6 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



Suide Boelc and directory. 



"Who can alight on as happy a shore, 
All the world o'er, all the world o'er, 
Whither away ? Listen and stay." 

The island upon which Ocean City is built, is located on the 
New Jersey coast, ten miles south of Atlantic City. It contains an 
area of over three and one-half square miles, or about 2000 acres, 
and stretches between Great Egg Harbor Bay and Thoroughfare 
Sound on one side, and the Atlantic Ocean on the other side for 
seven miles, thus having the peculiar advantage of an entire length 
of ocean frontage. The northern and southern limits are bounded 
by Great Egg Harbor Inlet and Corson's Inlet. The strand of 
firmly-packed sand 200 feet wide is higher than any point along 
the New Jersey coast. It slopes gently to the sea, and is smooth 
and as hard as a floor, without any quicksands or treacherous 
grounds. When the storms of the equinox sweep the seaboard, 
Great Egg Harbor Bar is an invaluable protection to the city; this, 
even if it were possible to create by mechanical skill, would cost 
fabulous sums of money. At all times, the waves breaking upon 
it lose their force before rolling up on the strand. 

The island is a chosen spot of nature. The soil possesses 
peculiar properties, and protected by the sheltering sand hills which 
skirt the shore, is productive of a most luxuriant flora, blending 
the growth of the tropics with that of the temperate regions. 
Responding to this wondrous creative influence, it stands out from 
the dreary stretch of dull marsh lands and white sands of the coast 
fair and green. In clearing the land of its dense vegetable growth, 
many of the cedars have been left. While this tree cannot com- 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. I? 

pare in beauty with others of the order conifers, the stately fir, or 
the graceful larch, yet as it stands with roots firmly grasping soil 
almost swept by the waves, its gnarled and straggling branches 
grappling with the fierce Atlantic storms, reminding us of the 
rugged strength which characterizes the tree of its family from 
which Solomon hewed the timbers for the building of the temple 
at Jerusalem — the cedars of Lebanon — it forms a pleasing back- 
ground for the mottled ash bark, shining leaves and scarlet fruit of 
the hollies, the pale green of the willows, and the crimson and gold 
of the autumn maples. A thousand varieties of wild flowers 
mingle their delicate bloom in the thickets of grape vines, clematis, 
bayberryand alder bushes. The floral gem of our northern forests, 
trailing arbutus, flourishes about the roots of the southern 
magnolia ; the dull purple of the cinquefoil, usually found in cold 
bogs, mingles with the yellow blossoms of the prickly cactus, 
while among the lush grasses of the meadows grow hundreds of 
varieties of marsh and aquatic herbs, which in their season star the 
earth with a rich profusion of variety and color. 

From early spring till autumn the air is redolent with the odor 
of flowers. Song birds, the whistling cardinal of brilliant plumage, 
the yellow oriole, the meadow lark, thrush, robin, and song 
sparrow build their nests among the branches of the low trees,, 
and in the thickets of the eglantine and beach grass. The place 
has been well known to sportsmen. Immense numbers of 
wild fowl found cover in the thick underbrush about the inland 
ponds, and the abundant growth of small fruits afforded them 
sustenance. In the spring and autumn wild geese, ducks and 
other migratory birds, while passing north or south, rested 
here in their long flight and regaled themselves, the discordant 
notes of one flock scarcely dying away before a dark line, 
wedge or cloud in the distance denoted the approach of 
another one. The stately blue heron, now seldom seen, .stalked 
majestically over the meadows or stood upon the margin of the 
pools in profound meditation. The tall white "booby" covered 
acres of ground midway of the island with nests, from which were 
gathered eggs by people living on the mainland. The loon uttered. 

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its mournful note as it winged its slow flight inland or folded its 
lengthy legs and wings in an apparently inextricable mass in 
alighting. Curlew, plover, and infinite varieties of snipe, waded out 
after the receding wave in quest of unwary mussels, their low cries 
mingling with the angry scream of the bald eagle, as he darted 
into the waters for his prey, or oftener robbed the hard-working 
fish hawk. Twenty-seven varieties of sea gulls visit the coast. 
They are divided into two general classes: summer gulls and 
winter gulls. They vary in size from a pigeon to a goose. The 
winter gulls are the largest, and come in November; in May 
they return to Labrador. 

On this part of the coast is found a wonderful variety of forms 
of ocean life, from the low, shapeless mollusk to the gigantic 
cetacean. This fact is apparent in the choice of the location of 
the Biological Society buildings of the University of Pennsylvania, 
ten miles to the south, at Sea Isle City. To see the ocean when it 
is terrible in its beauty, one must visit it during the fall or winter 
months. It is then, when lashed into fury by the winds, that the 
depths are stirred and its treasures thrown up on the beach. The 
strand looks at times as though a polar had swept over it and 
left a thousand fantastic forms of ice, so clear that when the sun's 
rays strike them they radiate every color of the rainbow. These 
are jelly fish, dead and divested of their digestive organs, thus 
making the illusion more complete, as that is the only part of their 
bodies not transparent. Constellations of star fish, the quaint tiny 
sea horse, " sailor's razors" and "pincushions," the graceful "sea 
robin," conchs, clams and sea snails may be seen in abundance. 

On the eighth of October a finback or rorqual whale washed 
ashore measuring sixty-eight feet. The tail measured fifteen feet 
across the flukes, and if Neptune had harnessed it to his chariot, 
he would have required a bit thirteen feet long to have controlled 
ihis charger. It was a monster of its kind, and the skeleton is the 
largest owned by any museum in the world. 

Lying near the 39th degree of latitude, the climate is that of 
Annapolis, Maryland. Spring comes early. Summer is rendered 
.delightful by the cool sea breezes. Autumn, with its gorgeous 




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City Councilman. 




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coloring, dreamy haze and bright skies, lingers long. The close 
proximity of the gulf stream adds greatly to the salutary influence 
of the climate. The winters are tempered by its warm current, 
thus making an all-the-year-round residence in every way desirable. 
Invalids are loud in their praises of its benefits. What better inspi- 
ration can be wished for than the music of the pines, the roar of 
the ocean, the invigorating blast of the Atlantic north wind ? This 
is a part of our birthright, from which we cannot afford to be 
kept out. 

The island was formerly known as Peck's Beach. There may 
be found still further back, in the archives of the Courts of 
London, a document in which it was known as Pete's Beach. It 
has little written history save that of its location and wrecks. 
Of a period when a race computing time by nights and moons 
built their mud lodges along the shore, no record is given. Tradi- 
tion only hands its history down to us interwoven with the beauti- 
ful legends of the peaceful tribes of Delawares or Lenni-Lenapes. 
If we measure time by the years since the island has been inhabit- 
ed, it is but a short step back from this bright scene of civilization 
to the time when their swift pirogues shot out from the shore filled 
with dusky braves, gorgeous in paint and feathers, and with squaws 
of beautiful form clothed in rudely-made garments fringed with 
the hair of the red deer, still found in Southern New Jersey, while 
wampum made from the clam shells of the beach adorned their 
black unbound hair. Pirates have anchored here without fear of 
molestation, and borne from the hold of the vessel treasures of 
gold, jewels and rich merchandise to bury beneath these sands. 
Their implements of warfare have been dug up but recently, quite 
near. One of these, a long, pointed iron rod ; half-way of its 
length was fastened a knife fashioned like a hand sickle. The 
evident intention of its use was first to draw the victim toward the 
executioner with the knife, and then impale him on the rod. 

The first topographical surv^ey of the island was made to 
Thomas Budd, October 7, 1695. In 1750, about 500 acres of land 
located between Ninth street and the north point of the beach, 
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and cousin of John Lord, Right Honorable Earl of Hardvvick. 
This tract of land remained in the possession of the Somers family 
for one hundred and thirty years. The first houses upon the 
island known to be built by white people, were located, one near 
the north point of beach, occupied by Hanna Kittle, the other in 
the neighborhood of Ninth street and Asbury avenue, occupied by 
John Robinson. Thirty-three years ago Parker Miller, and Louisa, 
his wife, with four little children, braved the solitude and erected a 
home. For over twenty years they were the only residents. 
Their intercourse with the outside world was when sportsmen came 
gunning for wild fowl, when a vessel was cast away, or "beach 
parties " came across the bay for a day's recreation. Mr. Miller 
was engaged in raising cattle, planting oysters, and watching the 
coast for wrecks. He has acquired by his long residence and 
direct observation, a better knowledge of the island from its 
primeval condition to its present high state of development, than 
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This picturesque, landlocked sheet of water, teeming with blue- 
fish, sheepshead, oysters, and shellfish of every description, 
received its name from the large numbers of gulls' eggs found in 
the surrounding meadows. The gentle ebb and flow of the tide, 
submerging and revealing the emerald beauty of its tiny green 
islands, the white-winged sea craft passing rapidly to and fro or 
resting lazily on the blue waters, the throbbing steamers with their 
long wakes of white foam, form an endless panorama, from which 
the weary toiler, the dispirited pleasure seeker, nor the invalid, 
can ever grow weary. Away to the southwest. Thoroughfare 
Sound sweeps out through the meadows, till it is lost to view 
in the shadow of the pines. Following the line of the bay, now 
curving to the west, Beasley's Point is plainly visible. During 
Revolutionary times, a watch was kept at this place from a " crows- 
nest" or lookout, and if any British vessels were seen, a bell was 
rung and the inhabitants of the surrounding country quickly 
gathered at the Point to repulse the soldiers should they come in 
on a foraging expedition, as was frequently done. At one time all 
the men of the village were absent, and a young woman, Rachel 
Stillwell, was keeping watch ; she espied a British man-o'-war lying 
just outside of the inlet. Quickly dropping the spy-glass she gave 
the alarm, but before it was responded to the British had lowered 
their row boats and were speeding across the bay. Summoning 
the women of the hamlet, a cannon was quickly rolled into posi- 
tion, and with her own hands she applied a brand to the touch- 
hole, and quickly reloading, sent peal after peal across the waters, 
completely routing the redcoats. 

Sweeping down past Beasley's Point, the waters of the Tucka- 
hoe, Middle, and Great Egg Harbor rivers empty into the bay. In 
the dim perspective, masts and sails are outlined against the sky; 
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various kinds, are hurrying out to the ocean, bound for different 
points all along the coast. 

Historic Somers' Point next marks the curve of the shore. 
From its wharves have sailed out brave soldiers of the Revolution 
and daring and skillful navigators. Many of these who have 
"gone down to the sea in ships" have left behind them wives, 
sweethearts and mothers, who differed only from the heroines of 
fiction in that the tragedy and pathos of their lives were real, for as 
they left the port, they sailed out of the lives of those standing on 
shore, and all that ever floated back was a rumor, perhaps, of a 
fragment of wreck cast up on some distant coast, bearing the name 
or some trace of the vessel. 

Still following the line of the shore, now lost to view, and now 
clear and distinct, Longport may be seen. Its prominent wharf is 
visible for many miles out at sea. This point of land forms the 
last boundary of the bay, and is divided from Ocean City by Great 
Egg Harbor Inlet. On its opposite side it is washed for miles by 
the Atlantic Ocean. The same character of the beach as that of 
Ocean City is noticeable. Longport was founded by M. Simpson 
McCuUough in 1882. Palatial houses and tasteful and convenient 
cottages adorn its streets and avenues. The Aberdeen Hotel, con- 
ducted by W. Lamborn and Mrs. Elizabeth Kitts, is one of the 
finest on the coast. The sanitary arrangements are complete in 
every detail. The facilities for bathing, boating and fishing are 
nowhere excelled, and Longport promises to be in the near future 
the Newport of Southern New Jersey. 

At the wharves at Ocean City yachts are constantly in readiness 
to take parties out fishing or sailing on the bay or ocean. The 
Atlantic Coast Steamboat Company operates a line of steamboats 
between Ocean City, Longport and Somers' Point. A large 
steamer is run to the fishing banks in the ocean daily during 
the summer. This is provided with lines, bait, and everything 
necessary for the comfort and enjoyment of its patrons. This is 
patronized by invalids and pleasure seekers, aside from those 
who go for the sake of fishing. While enjoying the refreshing 
sea air, they can rest in the cabins or beneath canopies, shaded 
from the sun. 




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The name of Ocean City will ever be associated with that of the 
Lakes — Hon. Simon Lake and his three sons, Ezra B., S. Wesley 
and James E., all born and reared in Southern New Jersey. Early 
in life the sons were led to enter the Christian ministry, and became 
members of the New Jersey M. E. Conference, and have since 
filled honorable positions. After some years, the attention of Rev. 
E. B. Lake was directed towards the establishing of a seaside 
resort, where the sale of alcoholic liquors should be prohibited and 
the sanctity of the Sabbath preserved. The tract of land, Peck's 
Beach, presented itself to his mind as the one to be redeemed for 
the purpose. Mr. Lake was eminently fitted for the work and 
entered upon it with an enthusiasm which is ever fresh and con- 
stant. Hon. Simon Lake, recognizing the possibilities of the enter- 
prise, immediately engaged with him, and the admirable plan of the 
City and its acquired facilities are largely due to his far-seeing wis- 
dom and sound executive ability. Revs. S. Wesley and James E. 
next came forward, and have, since that time, labored with Rev. E. 
B. Lake in the interests of the City. 

Shortly after the enterprise was fairly under way, Hon. Simon 
Lake was stricken with a sudden and fatal illness, and passed away 
November 28, 1881. He was looked to as a leader in the affairs of 
church and state by all with whom he was associated. He carried 
his 68 years as sturdily as any other man of 40. Tall and broad 
of frame, strong in arm and voice, he reached the close of his 
earthly career with faculties of mind and body unimpaired by time 
or disease. His untimely death was mourned throughout the 
country. 



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©cean (;if^ (sAssociafion. 



OFFICERS AND MANAGERS. 

President, Rev. W. B. Wood; Vice-President, Rev. W. H. 
Burrell ; Secretary, Hon. S. Lake; Treasurer, C. Matthews, Esq.; 
Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake ; Rev. W. E. Boyle, Rev. S. W. 
Lake, C. Matthews, Jr., and Rev. J. E. Lake. 

Through the efforts of the Lake family a company was formed 
with the above name and members. Active operations toward 
bringing forth a city from beneath the sand hills and out of the 
thickets commenced October 20, 1879, by securing the land and 
issuing stock. The first topographical survey was made by William 
Lake during the fall and winter following. The part known as 
section A was staked off into avenues, streets and lots. This was 
quickly cleared of brushwood and timber ; thousands of feet of 
ditching were dug for drainage, and hundreds of loads of brush- 
wood were placed at the north point of beach for the purpose of 
gathering the moving sand and extending the ocean front. Lots 
to the v^alue of ;^85,ooo were disposed of, and another portion of 
land, known as section B, surveyed and laid out. A wharf, 125 
feet long by 72 feet wide, was built at an enormous cost. This was 
connected with the City by a good road over the meadows, 1000 
feet long, and a board walk running parallel with it the entire dis- 
tance. Dwelling houses, unpretentious at first, commenced to 
spring up. These were soon succeeded by large and commodious 
buildings. The first building erected was the little Pioneer Cot- 
tage, then standing on the rear of the lot now occupied by the 
Association Office. It was used as a boarding house for the me- 
chanics at work on the Island, and was sometimes occupied by forty 
men. The first hotel, the Ocean House, was built by I. B. Smith; 




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Editor and Proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 25 

now the far-famed "Brighton," owned and conducted by R. R. 
Sooy. A newspaper was issued May, 1880. A railroad was built 
from Pleasantville to Somers' Point, known as the Pleasantville and 
Ocean City Railroad. This was formally opened October 26, 1880. 
A steamboat was purchased to ply between Somers' Point and 
Ocean City, thus completing connection with the outside world. 
A Turnpike Company was organized to build a road from Beesley's 
Point to Ocean City, which, together with a bridge over Thorough- 
fare Sound, was completed the following spring. A local church 
was organized and a camp meeting held for ten days. 



This brief summary of a little more than a year's work is but 
one page in the rapid advancement of the City. The development 
during so short a period necessarily had the effect of stimulating 
and bringing forward new purchasers and residents, and the tide of 
progress has never abated. The success of an enterprise of this 
kind is not brought about without formidable difficulties. The toil 
and anxiety are best known to those who have participated in a 
work of its kind. The Association has tenaciously adhered to the 
principles first laid down, and sympathetic and fraternal relations 
now exist where the lava tide of dissension and strife threatened 
disaster. 

Its present officers and managers are : 

President, Rev. J. B. Graw, D. D. 
Vice-President, Rev. W. B. Wood, D. D. 
Secretary, Rev. S. Wesley Lake. 
Treasurer, Dr. G. E. Palen. 
Superintendent, Rev. E. B. Lake. 

George L. Horn, G. B. Langley, H. B. Howell, Rev. James E. 
Lake. 



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OeeaQ <Sity. 



Ocean City was created by an act of incorporation April 30,. 
1884. The first council consisted of G. P. Moore, Mayor; Parker 
Miller, Rev. W. H. Burrell, Correll Doughty and Enoch Green. 
The administration of the two mayors and the councilmen who 
have served with them since then, has been attended with stability 
and prosperity. This is shown in the steady throbbing pulsation 
which marks the life and business interests of a city which is under 
no bond of debt, and has never realized the paralyzing effects of a 
sudden boom, whose growth has been steadily upward from the 
first. When the government was vested in a mayor and council, 
the original design of the City was carried out, but upon a broad 
and liberal basis. The avenues through which vice and immorality 
enter are guarded only to such an extent as to be a protection to 
liberty and pleasure, which are in no way restrained, and Ocean 
City has a genuine air of respectability and refinement. 

To follow, step by step, its growth and progress is impossible, 
but not twelve years have elapsed, and a city of beautiful homes 
stretches from bay to ocean and for miles up and down the island. 
Spacious and elegant summer residences of prominent citizens of 
Philadelphia, Camden, New York, and inland cities north and 
south, adorn its wide streets and avenues. Accommodations for 
the entertainment of guests are nowhere excelled. The hotels are 
thoroughly equipped ; boarding cottages, large and small, may be 
found to suit every taste. There are miles of graveled streets and 
sidewalks, boardwalks on the strand, public schools, stores of every 
description, steamboat and railroad facilities, excellent telegraphic 
and mail services, and everything which may be found in cities 
much older. The Auditorium, occupying the center of the camp 




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ground, is a handsome structure, with a seating capacity of two 
thousand. The public school is a well-built, prominent edifice, and 
is supplied with a most efficient corps of teachers. The Excursion 
House on the strand adds greatly to the convenience of visitors. 
Bath houses, restaurants, carousels, and booths of every descrip- 
tion, spring up at every point. 

The M. E. church was dedicated August, 1891. Rev. W. A. 
Massey, the pastor, is not only an able preacher, but an indefatiga- 
ble worker as well. During his pastorate the membership has been 
greatly increased, and through the quiet months of winter, as well 
as the exciting summer season, the church is always well filled. 
In a short time a new parsonage adjoining the church will be 
completed. 

Ocean City has the additional attraction for moral people that 
the liquor traffic is prohibited. A clause in all deeds calls for the 
forfeiture of title if the vice is allowed to flourish on the premises. 

Rents are very reasonable, either for the season or by the year. 
Cottages, furnished or unfurnished, can be rented from fifty dollars 
upwards. The surrounding country, through its rich soil, fur- 
nishes the best of vegetables, fruits, etc., in great abundance. These 
are brought direct to the City by the farmers and truckers them- 
selves, and wholesaled to the markets or retailed from the wagons 
to customers. 

Several routes are available by which the City may be reached 
from the imperial eastern cities — New York and Philadelphia. 
These are within a few hours by rail, and the important cities up 
and down' the coast are brought into close touch either by rail or 
water. 

Ocean City has officials ^nd citizens of whom it may be justly 
proud. Besides those of whom sketches are given are J. T. Adams, 
proprietor of the Traymore and owner of the Lafayette ; R. R. 
Sooy, the genial host of the Brighton ; N. Corson, one of the first 
builders of the City, a man whose life is marked by sterling integ- 
rity; Capt, Isaac Lee, spending his declining years in peaceful, con- 
tented retirement ; 'Squire Myers, progressive and enterprising ; 
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of Philadelphia ; Joseph Brower, a retired merchant of Philadelphia ; 
W. Godfrey, one of the earliest pioneers of Ocean City ; Assessor 
R. Ludlani ; R. Fisher, whose extensive business speaks for itself; 
J. T. Price, the enterprising host of the Ocean City House ; S. 
Schurch, of the Bellevue ; F. Schmitt, a self-made, and for many 
years a prominent business man of Philadelphia, and Hiram Steel- 
man, grocer. Among our younger men who owe their success 
largely to their own efforts since they came to Ocean City, are City 
Treasurer H. G, Steelman, owner and proprietor of the largest 
grocery store in the City ; City Clerk and Real Estate Agent H. B. 
Adams ; Abel D. Scull, architect and builder, whose work is among 
the finest in the City; John Gandy, grocer; the Sampson Brothers, 
contractors; R. B. Stites, lumber dealer; Stonehill & Adams, 
stone-masons. The younger members of the city council, F. P. 
Canfield and J. Steelman, are coming rapidly to the front as busi- 
ness men, and are showing themselves to be men capable of being 
vested with municipal powers. 

Among our noted summer residents are M. C. Clelland, of the 
Ridge Avenue Railway ; E. Brucker, a retired merchant of Phila- 
delphia ; the Davis brothers, of Camden ; H. Gerlach, a prominent 
jeweler of Philadelphia; C. H. Schermerhorn, secretary and treas- 
urer of the Niagara Mining and Smelting Company of Utah ; Dr. 
C. E. Edwards, of Haddonfield, N. J.; F. R. Whitesides, of the firm 
Rush Whitesides & Sons, Philadelphia ; Godfrey Krouse, a promi- 
nent Philadelphia plumber; Rev. W. Huckle, of New York; Dr. 
F. R. Graham, a prominent physician of Chester, Pa., and a host of 
others whom we hope to mention more fully in a future edition of 
the Guide Book and Directory. 



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Bio^rapl^ical Skeicl^es. 



MAYOR G. p. MOORE. 

Mr. Moore was born in Chester county, Pa., of Quaker parents. 
He received the education of the common schools of the day, and 
afterwards learned the trade of a carpenter. In 1854 he removed 
to Michigan and engaged in farming, but returned to his native 
state four years later and went into business as a builder. He was 
twice a volunteer in the late Rebellion ; failing to pass the physical 
examination the first time, he was the second time accepted. Mr. 
Moore also holds the position of a notary public, is a prominent 
member of the society of Odd Fellows, and a director of the Cape 
May County Agricultural Association. He has held many posi- 
tions of private trust, not one of which has ever been violated. 

Mr. Moore is possessed of strong religious tendencies. The 
churches of Ceresco Circuit, Michigan, were founded through his 
missionary labors. At the battle of Bull Run he was commis- 
sioned by the Christian Commission to go to the front to care for 
the wounded and dying. One instance alone of how his life in this 
direction is respected, is shown by the fact that when called by the 
United States Court to Baltimore to give testimony in a great life 
insurance trial, he was honored by the court suspending business 
to allow him to transact some private business with them in time to 
return home without traveling on the Sabbath. He came to 
Ocean City in 1 881, and has held the office of mayor since its 
incorporation, with the exception of one term. He is a progressive 
official, honored by all parties, and has served the city well. 



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EX-MAYOR J. E. PRYOR, M.D. 

Dr. Pryor is descended from a family prominent in the state of 
Indiana for over i6o years; noted through Colonial and Revolu- 
tionary times for the men it furnished both as officers and privates 
to the patriot armies engaged in warfare on the western frontier, 
when the Indians, led on by their great chief Tecumseh, consti- 
tuted such a terrible foe. 

Dr. Pryor was born in the Wabash Valley, at the old " Pryor 
Homestead," almost in sight of the battle ground of Tippecanoe. 
He received his preliminary education at the common schools, and 
when eighteen years of age commenced teaching in this depart- 
ment. During this period his spare time was devoted to the prose- 
cution of his own studies. In the spring of 1885, he entered the 
Detroit Medical College, from which institution he was graduated 
three years later; he also received a course of instruction at the 
Philadelphia Polyclinic. He came to Ocean City in 1888, and 
soon acquired a successful practice. The duties which devolved 
upon him in this capacity were discharged in a thorough and 
conscientious manner. Dr. Pryor has displayed through his career 
the perseverance and courage which will continue to bring to him 
in the future as it has in the past the success which is ever the 
result of these attributes. 



DR. GILBERT E. PALEN. 

Dr. G. E. Palen has been one of theVegular summer residents of 
Ocean City since 1881. He has shown his faith in its future by 
investing largely in lots, and building several cottages. He is 
deeply interested in retaining the temperance and religious prin- 
ciples upon which the place was founded, and thus keeping Ocean 
City free from the vices which so predominate in most resorts of 
this kind. He is one of the stockholders of Ocean City Associ- 
ation, and has been its treasurer for a number of years. 

Dr. Palen was born in Palenville, N. Y., May 3, 1832. His 
father, Rufus Palen, was of Quaker stock, and was a well-known 




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tanner and leather dealer, being a partner of Shepherd Knapp, and 
a member of the firms of Knapp & Palen, Palen & Flagler, etc. 
After preparing himself for college, Dr. Palen first obtained a 
thorough knowledge of the tanning business at the Fallsburgh, 
N. Y., tannery, in which his father's estate had a large interest. 
Then entering Brown University, he went with several of the pro- 
fessors and a number of students to Yale^ where he graduated with 
the degree of Ph.B. in the "famous class" of 1853. He then 
pursued a medical course at the New York University, which he 
subsequently completed at the Albany Medical College, graduating 
from the latter in 1855 as a doctor of medicine. 

But it having been the wish of his father that his eldest son 
should follow his business, Dr. Palen, in 1856, entered into partner- 
ship with his uncle by marriage, George W. Northrop, and built an 
oak tanner}' at Canadensis, Pa., afterward taking one of his brothers 
in as a partner, under the firm name of Palen & Northrop. After- 
wards, with his two brothers. Dr. Palen built another tannery at 
Tunkhannock, Pa., but the business proving unprofitable for the 
manufacturer, owing to the unequal distribution of the profits 
between himself and the dealers, the doctor determined to retire. 
The building of tanneries in the woods, cutting down trees, etc., is 
genuine pioneer work, and to this the doctor was peculiarly fitted 
by his active temperament. In 1 860 the doctor married Elizabeth 
Gould, daughter of John B. Gould, of Roxbury, N. Y. He became 
a member of the M. E. church at Canadensis, and at this period his 
career as a Prohibitionist and temperance worker begins, voting the 
Prohibition ticket, the voters being so few that he was obliged to 
write his own. Removing afterwards to Tunkhannock, Pa., he 
engaged actively in the struggle for local option, which, finally 
gained, was lost by the treachery or halfheartedness of some of its 
supporters. 

In 1876, after a careful examination of the compound oxygen 
process, he entered into partnership with Dr. Starkey, under the 
firm name of Starkey & Palen, the former bringing into the concern 
his perfected system, and Dr. Palen the business experience and 
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wonderfully, and the treatment is now known throughout the world. 
The doctor is an active and honored member of the M. E. Board 
of Church Extension, and president of the Niagara Mining and 
Smelting Co., and is always active in every movement for the 
public good. He has been several times candidate for mayor and 
recorder of Philadelphia on the Prohibition ticket, accepting each 
time his anticipated defeat with resignation, but never for a moment 
despairing of the final triumph of Prohibition. 



J. S. WAGGONER, M.D. 

Dr. Waggoner was born in Perry county, Pa., where he resided 
during his boyhood. He afterward removed to Carlisle, Pa., and 
engaged in the study of medicine. In i860 he was graduated 
from the University of Pennsylvania. At the outbreaking of the 
Rebellion, he was appointed assistant surgeon of the 5th Pennsyl- 
vania Cavalry (Cameron Dragoons), and was also physician to the 
Eastern Insane Asylum of Virginia at Williamsburg. He was 
mustered out as a supernumerary of the 5th Pennsylvania Cavalry, 
and immediately appointed assistant surgeon to the 84th Pennsyl- 
vania Infantry, from which position he was shortly afterward 
appointed to that of surgeon. In 1864 he resigned, and was 
appointed post surgeon of the United States General Hospital at 
Beverly. Here he acquired an enviable reputation as a surgeon. 
At the battle of Chancellorsville he was carried from the field 
wounded and given up for dead, but was resuscitated and cared 
for by S. S. Fowler, now of North Carolina. 

After the war he was engaged in private practice in New Jersey. 
He came to Ocean City when it was first started, and established 
the pioneer drug store, still continuing the practice of medicine. 
He has served as borough clerk and city councilman. 

Dr. Waggoner is thoroughly conscientious in all his work. The 
positions which he has held, and the offices he has filled, have been 
honored by the manner in which he has discharged the duties of 
each. A retiring disposition has prevented a greater advancement^ 
which his ability has rendered possible. 



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H. 1!. ADAMS, 
City Clerk. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 33 

W. LAKE, C. E. 
Mr. Lake was born at Bargaintown, N. J., April 27, 1838. His 
boyhood was spent with his father, working at the blacksmith trade. 
Not satisfied with the educational advantages of the day, he en- 
tered upon a course of studies by himself and was soon teaching 
in the public schools. At a very early age he received an appoint- 
ment as civil engineer, and his progress since then has been steadily 
upward. He was elected to numerous township offices, and was, in 
1863, appointed commissioner of deeds. In 1875 he was appointed 
master in chancery, and the same year elected to the office of jus- 
tice of the peace of Atlantic county, which position he held until 
his removal to Ocean City. His work commenced in this City with 
the earliest movement made towards its development. He has sur- 
veyed every foot of the island and examined every original title 
from 1690 down to the time it was purchased by the Ocean City 
Association, and has drawn over nineteen hundred deeds. Mr. 
Lake is in consequence very closely identified with the progress 
and growth of the City, and has in his possession much interesting 
and important data concerning its history. He is at present en- 
gaged in preparing a brief of title of a tract of six thousand acres 
in Atlantic county, for the purpose of forming a new settlement. 



JESSE CONVER. 
City Councilman Conver, now holding the office for the third 
term, is a native of Pennsylvania, born in Montgomery county, 
March 29, 1834. He engaged in the tin and sheet-iron business at 
twenty years of age, and shortly afterwards removed to Philadel- 
phia, where he carried on roofing, heating and range business very 
extensively. He came to Ocean City in 1 881, and has since en- 
gaged in the same business, Mr. Conver is one of the few men 
who, when coming in contact with the business world, do not allow 
its influence to draw them from their own conscieHtiousness of truth. 
and right, who maintain a strict integrity in all their business trans- 
actions. The influence of his early life among the hills of Penn- 
sylvania, of simple habits and firmly ingrained principles of right,, 
are still exerted, and may be felt and seen in his daily life. 

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34 . OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

R. H. THORN. 

Mr. Thorn is a Pennsylvanian, born and reared in Frankford, 
Philadelphia. He received his education in the public schools, and 
afterwards learned the carpenter's trade. He came to Ocean City 
May 4, 1885, and having a previous knowledge of the business, 
purchased stock and opened a hardware and house-furnishing store 
at his present stand, 801 Asbury avenue. Mr. Thorn is a brilliant 
example of what grit, determination and close application to busi- 
ness will do. Coming at a time when everything was new, the 
permanent population small, the situation was not a promising one. 
In 1887 he purchased two lots adjoining the stand he occupied and 
built store No. 805 Asbury avenue. In 1890 he bought the stand 
where he commenced business, and in 1891 built still another store 
between 801 and 805, together with a dwelling house facing on 
Eighth street. Mr. Thorn has now the largest establishment of its 
kind in the City, with a constantly increasing business. He has 
served as city councilman, and has held other positions of trust, 
both public and private. 



R. C. ROBINSON. 

One of our rising young men is Postmaster R. C. Robinson, 
editor and proprietor of the Ocean City Sentinel. Mr. Robinson 
was born in Atlantic county, N. J., in 1862. His father died when 
he was nine years of age, and he was early thrown on his own 
resources. At sixteen years of age he entered a wholesale dry- 
goods house, but finding the business distasteful, he engaged to 
learn the printing business in the Banner office at Beverly, N. J. 
He then accepted a position with A. L. English, of the Atlantic 
Revietv, Atlantic City. Mr. Robinson was first in the employ and 
was then associated with Mr. English in business for over six years. 
During this time he was editor and manager of the Mays Landing 
Record, and assistant editor of the Philadelphia journal. Over the 
Mountains and Doivn by the Sea. He came to Ocean City in 1885, 
and forming a partnership with W. H. Fenton, purchased the Ocean 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 35 

City Sentinel, and in a short time became sole proprietor. In 1888 
he represented Ocean City in the board of freeholders of Cape 
May county. He was appointed postmaster in 1889. Upon 
assuming the duties of this position, he immediately set about hav- 
ing the mail service extended and the office designated a money 
order office, succeeding in both. Mr. Robinson is possessed of 
those faculties which constitute the elements of success — hard 
labor and strict attention to whatever line of business in which he 
may be engaged. 



JOHN RYLAND KENDRICK. 

Touching at Ocean City in 1884, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Kendrick, of 
Philadelphia, were quickly impressed with its beauty and desira- 
bility as a summer resort. In 1889 they built a tasteful " Queen 
Anne " cottage on Wesley avenue, below Eighth street, facing the 
ocean, and possessing in its location every essential of an ideal 
seaside home. Mr. Kendrick descends from a New England family 
long prominent in clerical, educational and business circles. His 
grandfather, the Rev. Clark Kendrick, was an early Baptist chaplain 
of the Vermont legislature. Prof. A. C. Kendrick, D.D., LL.D., 
founder of the "University of Rochester" and a member of the 
board which produced the present revised version of the Scriptures; 
also the late Rev, J. Ryland Kendrick, D.D., an eloquent preacher 
and teacher, and president of Vassar College, are uncles of the 
gentleman whose career we note. The New England Kendricks 
are in line direct from Edward Kendrick, an eminent merchant of 
London and Rotterdam, and Lord Mayor of London in the time 
of " Bloody Mary." This ancestor married Susannah Cranmer, a 
niece of Archbishop Cranmer, whom the Papists burned at the 
stake. " Virtue is honor " is the family motto. J. R. Kendrick, 
whose face appears elsewhere, is in his forty-third year, and con- 
ducts a publishing business at looi Chestnut street, Philadelphia. 
He also owns and edits " The American Carpet and Upholstery 
Trade," a journal of wide influence in its sphere, founded by him 
in 1883. Mr. Kendrick gives much attention to the manufacture of 



36 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

textiles, and has several times served the United States government 
in the collation of industrial statistics. He served in the tenth and 
eleventh United States censuses, also as special treasury officer under 
Secretaries Sherman and Windom. He loves the " quill," and has 
done some writing of permanent value. His articles on " Carpets 
and Upholstery" for Appleton's Cyclopaedia are considered authen- 
tic data, and his report on the "Carpet Industry of Pennsylvania," 
made to Governor Beaver's administration, was an exhaustive and 
laborious piece of work. This appears in the report for 1889, 
Bureau of Internal Affairs. Mr. Kendrick is devoted to his family, 
which consists of his amiable wife, two sons and two daughters. 
The family entertain liberally at their summer home and possess a 
wide circle of friends. 





RESIDENCE OF J. F. HAND, 
Contractor and Builder, 721 Central Avenue. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. " 37 



bifeSaOinI S^rOice. 



The complications of the system of the Life-Saving Service are 
comparatively little known to those living inland. This was imper- 
fectly carried on for some years previous to 1872, but since that 
time means are taken every year for its greater perfection, and as it 
reaches its strong arms out to aid mariners in distress and to pre- 
serve property from destruction, the magnitude of its importance 
can only be estimated by the long marine official records of its 
work. The Atlantic coast is patrolled from Maine to Florida, the 
Gulf of Mexico and the great lakes their entire coast. Stations are 
placed at suitable distances apart, furnished with all the necessary 
appUances for the work. From September ist to May ist they are 
occupied by seven life-guards, one extra going on December ist. 
The other four months of the year, the season when few severe 
storms occur, the captain alone remains ; and as a large percentage 
of those living on the coast are sailors or fishermen, a volunteer 
crew can be easily secured should it be necessary. The uniform 
consists of a navy blue Guernsey, embroidered across the breast 
with the scarlet letters L. S. S., and the name of the station to 
which they belong; navy blue pantaloons, overcoat and cap. 
Around the latter is fastened a ribbon in which is woven in gilt 
letters the words U. S. Life-Saving Service. Another cap, worn 
in cold or stormy weather, is a woolen skull cap, called the " Nor- 
mandy Fisherman." 

The men as a class are stalwart, well built, and present a fine 
appearance. Watches are kept as on board ship, four hours long. 
Every night at sunset two guards are sent from each station, one 
going north and one south. Each one is met at a given point by a 
guard from the station on either side, with whom they exchange 



38 OCEAN C!TV GUIDE BOOK, 

checks. When this kind of communication is impossible, on 
account of a bay or an inlet coming between two stations, a clock 
is placed at the end of the beat in a wooden post, bored out in the 
side large enough to receive it, where it is secured by an iron plate; 
this registers every visit made by a guard. At eight o'clock these 
guards return, and two others take their place, who exchange 
checks or register, as do also those of the succeeding watches. 
Each guard is supplied with rockets with which to warn vessels 
that are approaching too near the shore and to answer signals of 
distress. A lookout is kept from sunrise to sunset, and every pass- 
ing vessel noted down. A journal is kept of each day's proceed- 
ings, which is forwarded to Washington. On cloudy or stormy 
days the coast is patrolled during the day as well as night. 



ROUTINE OF DUTY. 

The guards are required to keep in constant practice. Tuesday 
of each week they go out in the life-boat. This, by a simple yet 
very ingenious contrivance will bail itself out should it become 
filled with water. Wednesday is flag day. A few of the most 
important of a code of fourteen thousand signals are practiced. 
By this means conversation can be carried on with ships far out at 
sea. Thursday they practice with the breeches buoy; this is oper- 
ated in the following manner : A line is shot from a mortar out to 
the sinking ship. To the end of this line is fastened a whip-line, 
and to this a hawser. A wooden tag is fastened to the hawser with 
directions printed on it, one side in French and the other side in 
English, for making it fast and how to assist in working the buoy. 
As soon as it is made fast, the guards send the buoy out to the 
ship ; this is a skillfully contrived basket in the shape of a huge 
pair of breeches. A passenger steps into them, swings out over 
the angry waters and is hauled quickly to shore, the buoy return- 
ing to the ship in an incredibly short space of time. This is used 
only when it is impossible to reach the vessel in a boat. Friday 




R. H THORN. 




R. H. thorn's stores AND RESIDENCE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BCOK. 39" 

the performance of resuscitating the drowned is gone through with. 
Saturday is general cleaning day. 

Too much praise cannot be lavished on these brave men, who in 
times of extreme peril never falter. No means, however daring, 
are left untried for the rescue of life. The keepers of the three 
stations at Ocean City were all seafaring men years before entering 
the L. S. S. In their travels they have visited many strange coun- 
tries. The valuable and interesting information given by them, the 
courtesy which ever marks the deportment of a life-guard, render 
the visits of our guests to the Life-Saving stations delightfully 
entertaining. 




40 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



09rGcfe. 



Peck's Beach has a distinct history written in its driftwood. The 
features of the coast are constantly changing, as the sea encroaches 
upon one place and recedes from another. Great Egg Harbor Bar 
is dangerous to mariners with large craft, on account of its contin- 
ually shifting sands, and requires the special attention of the coast 
surveyors. A chart of one year varies greatly from that of 
another. Its treacherous character is plainly shown in the vast 
number of wrecks which have strewn the beach. Imagination and 
fancy have not the monopoly of romance and tragedy. Truth here 
claims a share beyond the power of either. Since the Life Saving 
Service has been in operation, and insurance companies have grown 
more watchful, the number is greatly diminished. In the following 
pages we give a few of the most interesting. 

THE FAME. 

The first of which we can gain an authentic account is that of 
the brig Fame. This vessel was sent out with a number of others 
to protect the inhabitants of Cape May county from the incursions 
of the British and refugees. She was in command of Captain 
William Treen, of Egg Harbor, and made a number of captures of 
vessels much larger than herself The night of February 22, 1781, 
while lying at the anchoring point in Great Egg Harbor Bay 
rejoicing over a victory just achieved, she was capsized in a heavy 
gale, with twenty-eight of a crew of thirty-two men on board. 
Four attempted to swim ashore ; three succeeded in landing at the 
north point of Peck's Beach, the fourth one drowned. Help 
reached the vessel at daylight, but of twenty-four brave men who 
had faced shot and shell, tempest and flood, twenty had succumbed 
to the sleep of death from exposure to the intense cold; the four 
remaining ones kept alive by walking rapidly and constantly up 
and down the side of the capsized vessel. 




ABEL D. scull's " THISTLE " COTTAGE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 4I 

THE PERSEVERANCE. 
The brig Perseverance, from Havre, France, to New York, laden 
with a cargo valued at ^400,000, was wrecked nearly opposite the 
point where the "Ocean Rest" now stands, in the month of 
December, 18 15. The day previous to the disaster (Friday) a 
vessel from New York was spoken who told the Perseverance she 
was 200 miles east of Sandy Hook. The news occasioned great 
joy among the crew and passengers of whom there were seven of 
the former and ten of the latter, as they expected, according to this 
intelligence, to land in New York on the following day. The 
captain, imbued with the spirit engendered by the fatal error to a 
degree, of recklessness, spread every stitch of canvas to a heavy 
nor'easter and, with spars strained to their utmost, and cordage 
creaking, the good ship sped merrily on to her swift destruction. 
At 3 o'clock A.M. on Saturday the warning cry of breakers ahead 
was sounded, and a moment later the vessel struck, refused to obey 
her helm, and backed up on the beach stern foremost. In a short 
time the sea broke entirely over her. The wildest confusion pre- 
vailed as the passengers rushed from the cabin with no protection 
from a piercing storm of snow and hail but their night clothing. 
Eight of the seventeen souls on board got into the long boat and a 
heavy sea swept it overboard. It was then discovered to be 
fastened by a cable which they were unable to cut or in any way 
detach, and amid piercing shrieks, with the means of rescue just at 
hand, as the long boat would probably have floated to shore, they 
went down beside the vessel. The others succeeded in reaching 
the round-top except a Frenchman by the name of Cologne, who 
remained in the shrouds. At daybreak the vessel was discovered 
from the mainland, and willing hearts sped across the bay and 
down the beach to the rescue. Boats were launched again and 
again only to be capsized and hurled back by the angry waters. 
Every means which human skill and daring could devise was tried 
till Sunday at noon, when they signaled to the vessel that nothing 
more could be done, and they should try to build a raft of the 
spars. The poor wretches held up their pocket books and watches 
as an inducement for those on shore to continue their efforts, but 



42 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

the limit of their power had been reached long before. Exhaus- 
tion from cold and hunger now did rapid work, and one by one, 
until but five were left, they dropped into the sea. Captain Snow, 
one of the remaining five, attempted to swim ashore and was lost. 
In the meantime the mate, who had fortunately secured a hatchet, 
constructed a raft. A negro, who was assisting, was washed over- 
board, but swam to shore. The Frenchman, who had remained in 
the shrouds up till this time, fell into the water senseless ; he was 
caught by the hair and thus towed behind the raft, which was 
finally carried ashore by the breakers. The saddest procession that 
ever trod this beach took up the line of march toward the bay to 
cross to the mainland. Four exhausted, half-frozen men, borne in 
the arms of those who had gone to the rescue, followed by others 
bearing a rudely constructed bier upon which lay the form of a 
young French girl, the only female on board the ill-fated vessel, 
and the only victim whose body floated to shore. Her linen cloth- 
ing was daintily embroidered, and jewelry was concealed in the 
braids of her hair. Many reports were given of her beauty. Dr. 
Maurice Beasley, an eye-witness, said : " She was the concentration 
of all the graces of the female form." Her remains were interred 
in the burying ground of the Golden family, a little plot now over- 
grown with weeds and briars a short distance from the wharf at 
Beasley's Point. Three days later her uncle, Mr. Cologne, who 
died from exhaustion was buried by her side. For seven miles, the 
entire length of the island, the beach was strewn with cashmere 
shawls, leghorn flats, thread lace, fine china and bales of silk and 
satin. Remnants of the merchandise are still in existence. It is 
supposed the hull is lying some distance out, covered with sand, 
and still contains treasure. After the storm of September, 1889, 
which swept the Atlantic seaboard, pieces of china washed ashore 
at this point, which, when compared with those secured at the time 
of the wreck, are of the same design, pattern and quality, and are 
doubtless from the old brig. These tangible links thrown across 
nearly three-quarters of a century connecting us so closely with 
the Perseverance, tell of a time when Madison was president of 
the United States. The treaty of peace with Great Britain had just 




kEV. E. n. lake's cottage. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 45 

been signed. The little Clermont, or " Fulton's Folly," had but a 
short time before revealed the adaptation of a power that should 
revolutionize navigation ; the magnetic telegraph was unknown till 
nearly thirty years later, and not till after fifty years had passed was 
the Atlantic cable completed. 



J. AND H. SCULL. 

The two-masted schooner J. and H. Scull, lumber laden, from a 
North Carolina port to Atlantic City, attempted to enter Great Egg 
Harbor Bay, and stranded, January i8, 1892. The vessel struck 
with great force. By the skillful management of the captain she 
cleared the bar and swept into deeper waters, only to become un- 
manageable and aground a second time. The life-guards of Ocean 
City Life-Saving station immediately signaled to her, and a little 
later the surf-boat was launched and speeding over the water. The 
muscle and brawn of powerful arms were brought into full play as 
the guards bent gallantly to the oars, while the voice of the cap- 
tain rang above the roar and tumult of the waves, as he issued his 
orders, standing firm and erect in the stern of the boat, guiding it 
upon its perilous journey, one moment poised upon the crest of a 
wave and the next buried from the sight in the trough of the sea, 
to rise again on the succeeding wave. The work of transferring 
the crew from the vessel to the surf-boat was very dangerous, the 
heavy sea causing the vessel to plunge violently. The captain, the 
mate, two sailors, the cook and his wife were finally landed without 
any loss of life. All efforts to remove the vessel from the bar were 
ineffectual ; she was then stripped of sails, cordage and topmasts, 
partially unloaded and abandoned for a time. The J. and H. Scull 
was an exceptionally staunch vessel. February 29th, during a 
violent storm, she cut through and displaced tons of the sand in 
which she was imbedded, plunged across the channel and landed 
on the main beach, without one bolt of her hull withdrawn, the 
mainmast and bowsprit intact, and the gilt arabesque scroll work of 
the figure head untarnished. Remains of the hull may now be 
seen at the north point of the beach. 



44 OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 

PANCHITO. 
Among the driftwood piled here and there on the island may be 
seen an occasional piece of logwood, which owes its preservation 
to the fact of its tough, hard fibre, being almost proof against de- 
struction by ordinary tools. This wood, lying hundreds of miles 
from its native soil, was brought here by the Spanish brig, Pan- 
chito, wrecked February 13, 1888. The circumstances attending 
the disaster were very mysterious. She came on the bar in the 
night, but sent up no signals of distress, and even extinguished her 
lights. At daybreak the life-guards discovered the vessel lying in 
a dangerous position and immediately went to her aid. The cap- 
tain represented her as belonging to a wealthy ranchman of Vera 
Cruz and bound for New York. The deck was loaded with log- 
wood, and the hold was partly loaded with logwood and hides. The 
crew of thirteen men were taken off in life-boats and cared for at 
the life-saving station. After seven days of hard labor a wrecking 
steamer succeeded in getting the vessel off the bar. As she was 
being towed into deeper water the cable parted and she struck 
again. The deck load was thrown off and she floated a second 
time. A small quantity of hard tack, a few Mexican beans and 
a little sugar was all there was on board to eat. The first 
mate, an American, was intelligent and well educated. His 
log book was remarkable for neatness and beauty of penmanship. 
The captain and second mate were coarse and ignorant Spaniards. 
They were each armed with a pair of revolvers and a huge dirk. 
The latter was stuck inside the waistband on the left side in front, 
and was carried without any sheath. It was a constant source of 
wonder to spectators how this could be done without inflicting 
serious injury. The captain carried two watches of exquisite work- 
manship, besides a number of rings and other jewelry. The mates 
had in their posssession different kinds of jewelry set with precious 
stones. The ten sailors were a motley group indeed, and were in a 
filthy condition. Their long, unkempt hair, unshaven beards and 
swarthy complexions gave them the appearance of wild beasts 
rather than men. The weather was very cold, but they were with- 
out shoes or stockings, and their clothing was in every way insuffi- 




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aUBJiilbii! jw Mum ri^-<-^^ '■mSm^'^^^^^' 



REV Li. H. SANDKRLINS COTTAGE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 45 

cient. As soon as they landed they were fed and properly clothed. 
Four of them were Italians, one an immense negro, intensely black, 
from Yucatan, one a native of Manilla (southeast of China), one a 
Portuguese, two native Spaniards and two Mexicans completed the 
group. They all spoke Spanish. They were evidently unwilling 
to board the vessel the second time. As they stepped on deck the 
officers issued orders with dirk in hand, as if prepared to spring 
upon them at any moment. The vessel was towed to Philadelphia 
and was there abandoned by the sailors. 



THE RHINE. 

Over forty years ago, the Rhine, a full-rigged ship, went down 
near Corson's Inlet. She was carrying three hundred German emi- 
grants to New York, beside a cargo of iron. All were saved but 
one child. Tents were pitched at the southern point of beach, 
where they were fed and sheltered until sent away by rail. 



THE ELIZABETH. 

Thirty years ago the full-rigged ship Elizabeth, Queenstown to 
New York, carrying two hundred and fifty Irish emigrants and a 
cargo of marble and cork, sank near Corson's Inlet. No lives were 
lost. The crew and passengers were taken to the Dolphin Hotel at 
Somers' Point. The following morning they were conveyed to the 
nearest railroad station to finish their journey by land, their num- 
bers reinforced by several children born during the night. The old 
hotels could tell strange tales of shipwrecks ; how it was necessary 
at times to resort to severe measures to prevent bloodshed among 
the rescued crew and officers; when the captain was secured with 
bolts in one room, the mates in another and the sailors imprisoned 
in still another apartment till their fury had subsided or they were 
removed to safer quarters. These troubles arose when the sailors, 
in mutiny, had wrecked the vessel purposely ; when the accident 
had occurred through the neglect of the officer on watch or the 
captain had been harsh and cruel. 



46 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

WRECK IN THE BAY. 

The long, low hull, lying keel upwards on Bond's Bar in Great 
Egg Harbor Bay, adds one more to the vast number of unknown 
wrecks which are cast up every year. This was first seen on Great 
Egg Harbor Bar, where it remained for a short time. During a 
storm it cleared the obstruction, and in the most uncanny manner 
wound its way in and out among the channels of the inlet as if 
guided by an unseen helmsman, never touching shoal or shore until 
it stranded on an island five miles from where it was first seen. It 
has been a well built copper-sheathed and bolted barkentine, bore a 
German name, and had been loaded with petroleum. The silent 
evidence of the most appalling of disasters, " burned at sea," tells 
the cause of shipwreck. A little more than a year previous to the 
time it was seen on this coast a vessel of the same name and cargo, 
in every way answering the description, was burned in the Mediter- 
ranean Sea. The hull drifted out through the straits of Gibralter 
and disappeared. It was sev^eral times reported, always in the same 
position — up-side down. It is the popular opinion of the coast guard 
of that body of water that this is the same wreck; that it has drifted 
with the o'cean currents and been driven by storms till it has reached 
the point wliere it now lies. 

Lack of space forbids an account of many other noted wrecks, 
among them the John Bentley, Utah, G. L. Thorn, Lottie Clotts, 
John Douglass, Caroline Hall, Zetland, Angela Brewer, Sallie Clark, 
Dashaway and Lawrence. 





S. B. SAMPSON'S RESIDENCE. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 47 



Time Table in effect June 24, 1892. 



L-eKizE ooeMw ciTV. second street pier. 



Ocean City to Somers' Point, connecting for Pleasantville, May's Landing 
and Philadelphia — 6.45, 8.10, 10.00, ir.oo a.m., 12.00 m., 2.15, 3.20, 4.20, 6.50, 
*7.io P.M. 

Somers' Point to Ocean City — *6.i5, 8.00, 9.23, 10.45, ic-30 a.m., 2.00, 2.45, 
3-45, 5-55. 11.50 P.M. 

Ocean City to Longport, connecting for Atlantic City — *6.4o, 7.20, 7.50, 8.25, 
9.00, 9.40, 10.00, 10.45, 11.17, 11-35 A.M., 12.00 M., 1.25, 2.00, 2.30, 3.®o, 3.20, 
4.00, 4.45, 5.30, 6.50, 7.10 P.M. 

Longport to Ocean City, upon arrival of trains from Atlantic City — 705, 
7.42, 8.15, 8.50, 9.23, 10.00, 10.30, 11.05, 11.40 A.M., 12.15, 12.45, 1.50, 2.20, 2.55, 
3.25, 4.00, 4.35, 5.10, 6.00, *6.45, 7.30 P.M. 

* Fishing boat daily. 

Boats are run to connect with all trains. 

EXCURSIONS TO SEA. 

Hourly pleasure trips to sea are made by boats of this Company from the 
Pavilion'at the Inlet at Atlantic City. They are also for charter for towing or 
special fishing, or Moonlight Excursions. 
W. T. BARBER, Manager. 

^Qesf-g (z;PS0y • i\0:ilF©ad.. 

F=OR SeK ISL-E CITY MND OCEKN CITY. 



LEAVE PHILADELPHIA. 

Express 9.10 a.m. Express 4.20 p.m. 

Accommodation 8.20 a.m. Express 2.30 p.m. 

Excursion 7.00 a.m. Accommodation 3.40 p.m. 

SUNDAYS. 

Accommodation 7.10 a.m. Express 8.50 A.M. 

Excursion 7.00 a.m. 

LEAVE OCEAN CITY— Second Street. 

Express 6.27 a.m. Accommodation 1.53 p.m. 

Accommodation 6.18 a.m. Excursion 4.50 p.m. 

Accommodation 9.43 a.m. Express 5.00 p.m. 

SUNDAYS. 

Accommodation 3 35 p.m. Excursion 5.42 p.m. 

Express 5.22 p.m. Accommodation 8.48 p.m. 

Central Ave., Sea Isle City, and Thirty-fourth St., Ocean City, flag stations 
for all trains. 

Chas. E. Pugh, Ge7i'l Manager. A. O. Dayton, Superintendent. 



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OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 



F. P. CflflFIEliD, 

F{eal Estate /^<5(^i)t. 



Rouses and Iiots for sale in all parts of the eity 
on easy terms. 



There never will be a time when lots will be cheaper, with 
so many attractions as Ocean City offers, than now. 

If you want a cottage or home by the sea, on one of 
the highest beaches on the New Jersey coast, with Great 
Egg Harbor Bay and Inlet on one side, and the Atlantic 
Ocean on the other, where the Hquor traffic is prohibited 
in every deed, where the Sabbath is observed, where the 
grass and flowers grow with rare beauty, where the sail- 
ing is the finest and the boating safe as on an inland 
lake, where the bathing is as good at one hour of the 
day as another, and no life lines are needed, where there 
is one of the best boardwalks on the New Jersey coast 
along the strand, where there has not been a case of 
drowning in seven years, where but two persons have 
been arrested for disorderly conduct in eight years, 
where there is absolutely no malaria, where living ex- 
penses are as cheap as anywhere, where there is no 
healthier climate in America, then buy one or more lots 
at Ocean City, while they will cost but a fraction of 
what they are worth at other seaside resorts. 

I l?aue lot5 ot) tl?e /i\aip au(^r>ues for sal^ at 
frofc\ $100 to $1000 (^aei). 

I am thoroughly conversant with all facts connected 
with property on the beach. Those desiring any infor- 
mation in regard to Ocean City, or about property, 
should call or correspond with me. 



U/. ?or. Sixtl; Street apd ^sbury J^u^pu^, 



OCEAN CITY, N. J. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 49 

SUPEHlHTENDEflT OF 

OCERJSl CITY ASSOCIRTIOH 

pi^Om ITS Of^GRfllZRTIOfl, flflD ALiSO 

l^ERli ESTATE AGEflT, 

Having thousands of building lots for sale at various prices, SOME VERY 
CHEAP, and located in all parts of Ocean City. 

Now is the time to purchase property, before the SECOND RAILROAD 
comes, as then property will greatly advance. 

I have a good many INQUIRJES FOR PROPERTY between Sixth and 
Twelfth streets. Any one having property for sale might do well to give me 
their prices. 

All persons desiring to BUY, or SELL, or EXCHANGE property, would 
do well before closing any transaction to call on or address 

E. B. LAKE, 

No. 601 ASBURY AVE., OCEAN CITY, N. J. 

Association office. 

prapl^ B. Spydi^r, 

Qf^oiei^ Brands Qi(5ar5, ^(^ari^ttes apd 5oba(;(;o5, 
/^sbury j\\3<iT)ii(i abou(^ Ei^l^tl? Stn^i^t, 

OCEfiri CITY, fl. tJ. 

First-class Barber Shop attached. All the daily and weekly papers. 

FRED. PONTIERE 

Wishes to inform his friends and the public in general that 
he has opened a 

St^O^ S'?OP» /^St^^ry fi\J^. belou; fliptt^ St., 

OCEAN CITY, N. J. 

Men's half soled and heeled, 75c.; men's half soled (hand sewed), Si. 00; 
ladies' half soled and heeled, 50c.; boys' half soled and heeled, 50c.; children, 
35c. and upward. Patches, loc. extra. Shoes made to order, I4.50 and 
upward. fi@"The best workmanship guaranteed. Please give me a trial. 



50 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

OCEAfi CITY, fiELU JEJ^SEY. 



R. CURTIS ROBINSON, Editor and Prop'r. 



A spicy seven-column sheet, with a very large circulation. Published on 
the border and circulates in three adjoining counties, as well as nearly every 
state of the Union. Advertisers will be wise in giving the SENTINEL a trial 
order, as our city is visited by thousands from a distance. Rates reasonable. 
Published every Thursday. 

B. R. SMITH, 

The Pioneer Paper Hanger, Decorator, Grainer 
and Sign Writer of Ocean City. 

A large and varied stock of 

Wall Paper and Decorations 

On hand at popular prices. 



All Worl^ Artigticallil Done, and i^Il Woi<l^ (guaranteed. 

B. R. S7V\:iTH, 

nSBUl^Y AVEflUE, - - OCEfliM CITY, fi. d. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 5I 



f\ /T\oral 5sasid(^ l^(?sort. 



•^-^!•ti^'«^5«^-* 



pot e^^celled ag a Health V^$l{^m 



FINEST FACILITIES FOR 



FISHING, SAILING, GUNNING, ETC. 



iM^ 



Oeeap ^ity. 



Temperance and Morals 

SHouiiD comBifiE to heijP us. 

THOUSANDS OF LOTS FOR SALE AT VARIOUS PRICES, 
LOCATED IN ALL PARTS OF THE CITY. 

Apply to Superintendent, 

E. B. LAKE. 



52 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

iReading 



{Railroad ? 



to 
the Sea." 



ONLY DOUBLE=TRACIs: LINE 

pi^iladelpt^ia ai^d /^tla^tie <5ity. 



THE FAMOUS FAST 



FliYEHS 



ALWAYS ON TIME. 

Carry their P2SSPngers S^FFLY and SURFLY between 

A BFLFFf f A ^V AN D TH E DEPOT I N 

I^MEtJltA Ml.l^^''^'^ THE VERY CENTRE OF 

CHESTNUT ST. WHARF 1 T'f 'I IV^iPfl^ f^l ''PW 

OR SOUTH ST. WHARF A 1 £/- Ai\ i il? l?i i 1 



IN 73 miNOTES. 



R FERTUf^E op THIS lalJME IS ITS HHJ?D"COAIi 
LtOCOmOTIVES. 

SPBEE). 

ONL-V do\jbi_e-trkok: L-INE. 

SAKKTY. 

TWO STATIONS IN PHILADELPHIA. 
SIX STATIONS IN ATLANTIC CITY. 



The Coaches composing the "FLYERS" are new and of the latest and 
most elegant designs. The Pullman Drawing-room and Buffet Parlor Cars 
are models of palatial luxury. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 53 



5176 grades publi5t7i9(^ Qo., 



PUBLISHERS OF 



T 




ALSO, 

f\rt printers ai^d Desi<59ers. 

ers[GRM:^ERS oi= ml.l- kinds. 

1001 CHESTNUT ST., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

JOHN R. KENDRTCK, President. 

ROBERT FISHER, 

THE PIONEER 

Real Estate and Insurance Agent and Broker 

Conveyancer, Coinmissioner of Deeds, 
and JYotary Public, 

Can supply purchasers with desirable investments at all 

times. Ocean Front Cottages and Hotel Sites 

a specialty. Rents and Renting. 

LIFE and FIRE INSURANCE 

Given careful attention, and the utmost security guaranteed in 
every department. 

Business Office on most pfominent eofnef, Seventh 
Street and flsbury Avenue, Ocean City. 



"PJCU'DD'C T IVFRY SUPPLIED _WITH ALL. THE MODERN 



STYLES OF VEHICLES, &,C. 



54 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK, 



B. HOWARD THORN, 



DEALER IN 





FURNITURE, STOVES, &c. 

READY-MIXED PAINTS, LEAD, OILS, GLASS 

801-805 ASBURY AVENUE, 

OCEAN CITY, N. J, 



ABEL D. SCULL, 



>¥T ¥ ¥ ¥1 



House Moving and Jobbing 



75 SF=»eCIKI-TV. 



MAIL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. 



THISTLE COTTAGE, 

Central Aventjie above Seventh. Street, 
OCHfliM CITY, H' tJ. 



ocean city guide book. 55 

Finely Equipped. Cuisine Excellent. Open all the Year. 



All Modern Improvements — Steam Heat, Gas, etc. 



J. T. ADAMS, Prop., 

Sl^e Sraymore, 

COl. IIITI 111 WESLEY IllIlJI. 



Rates, $2 00 to $2.50 per Day. Special 
Rates for Season. 



/Allaire ^ottai^e, 

(;or. §)\x\\i §)i c\nd (^enfral qA^q. 

Delightfully located between the bay and the ocean. The well-known repu- 
tation of this house will be fully sustained during the present season. 

MRS. A. B. RANCK, Proprietress. 

Bishop poster's Heresy, 

By REV. JAMES E. LAKE, B.D., of the N. J. Conference, 
IvEYPORT, N. J. 

"A sharp book." — Camden Post. " Written with marked ability." — Dr. Deems. 

212 pages. Sent on reeeipt of priee, postpaid, $1.00. 



56 OCEAN CITV GUIDE BOOK. 

J. E. Pt^YOt^, ]V[.D., 

OCEAN CITY, N. J. 
Residence, Cor. Eighth and Asbury Avenue. 

The Dolphin, 

NO. 1046 ASBURY AVE., OCEAN CITY, N. J. 

Delightfully located a short distance from either bay or ocean. 

Now open for guests. Accommodations first-class. Every home comfort. 

Rates reasonable. Call or address 

Dr. Waggoner's Seaside Pliamacy, 

No. 731 Asbury Avenue, - Ocean City, N. J. 



Ficj'e Drugs and Medicines, Toilet Goods and 
Fancy Articles, Whitman's Confections, 
Stationery, etc. Prescriptions care- 
fully compounded. 

Dr. Waggoner's office in drug store. 

F. E. cham:pion, 

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL 

ICECREAM MANUFACTURER 



SPACIOOS ICE CREAM PIRLORS AND RESTAURANT. 

MILK SEi¥IP TWICE MILY. FilSl CIEIIEIY BiTTIl, 

K9ieH<?rboGH<?r lee serued daily; S^torday p./T\. for SiJ^day. 

COAL AND WOOD. 

North Cor. Seventh and Asbury Avenue, Ocean City, N. J. 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 57 

3n£. STONeHIl-I-. G. O. MDKTU^S. 



STONEHILL & ADAMS, 

plastering, l(ange getting, Bricl^la^iiig, ^c. 

All Work in -Mason Line Promptly Attended to. 

OCEAN CITY, N. J. 



HARRY L. CONVER, 

Fine Cigai'^ ^ Tobacco, Full Line of pipeg \ ^mo^ing Tobacco 

FIRST-CLASS BARBER SHOP. 

LADIES' HAIR CUTTING AND SHAMPOOING A SPECIALTY. 

■711 A.SBXTI%^Y -AVENXJE. 

King's fii^^e^iGei^ llaui^dF^Y, 

ASBURY AVENUE below FOURTH STREET, OCEAN CITY, N.J. 



Shirts 10 • Flannels 50 a suit 

Collars 03 Ladies' White Dresses i.oo 

Cuffs 04 Ladies' Gingham 50 

White Vests 25 Wrappers 25 

Gents' Underwear 08 a piece White Skirts 23 

Gents' Hose 05 a piece Washing i.oo per doz. 

ALL WORK DONE IN FIRST-CLASS STYLE. 

MRS^. MMMM miM@t FEopEietress, 



Ocean Gity House 

OClEiA.N CITY, N. J., 

Asbury Avenue, between Seventh and Eighth Streets, 

MRS. J. T. PRICE, - - PROPRIETRESS. 

Pleasantly located. Convenient to R. R. station and Post Office. Terms 
moderate. Open all the year. 



58 OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 

WM. LAKE), 

SURVEYOR AND CONVEYANCER, 

Master in Chancery, Notary Public. 



Lots for Sale or Exchange. Cottages to 
Rent, ftjirnislned and tinfurnished. 



Cottages catted for duping the rjuintep. 



Office, S. Cor. Sixth St. and Asbury Ave. 

H. G. STEELMAN, 

GHOCEt^, 

The Largest Store, the Most Varied Stock, 

GOODS AT CITY PRICES. 

AGENT FOR THE FAMOUS BIG ELK DAIRY BUTTER. 



Goois ieliverei free of clarp. We parantee salisfaction. 

If®, f ®S AmrnVKW ATM: 



OCEAN CITY GUIDE BOOK. 59 

Manufacturer and dealer in 

STOVES, HEATERS and RANGES 

ALSO, TIN ROOFING AND SPOUTING. 

GalYanized Iron Flower Vases. Repairing of stoves, etc., promptly attended to. 



JACOB SCHUFF, 

PIONEER BAKERY, 

>S'. Tf '. Gov. Seventh St. ^' Ashury Ave. 

Fresh Bread, Pies and Cakes daily. Parties and weddings supplied. Only 
the best material used. Goods delivered free of charge. Nothing deHvered 
on Sunday. 

J. w. sMim 

748 flsbupy Ave. 

A Full Line of Fresh Meats always on hand, Beef, Mutton. Pork, etc., etc. 



•^1 STVTOFCED HKTW^S, BMCON. ETC. 14- 



ppesh Vegetables, the best the markets affoPd, Canned Goods 
a specialty. City Pfiees. 



J. s. RUSH, 

KRKSCOINO AND H[ARD= 
WOOD KINISHINO. 

^JOBBING H S R E C I M L-T V.i^ 

ESTIIVIflTES Ftll^NlSHED 

O9 all Ki9^S of vi/orH- 

ORDERS FROM A OiSTANGE FILLED PROMPTLY. 

OCEAN CITY, N. J. 

p. O. Box 37. 



H. B. ADAMS & CO., 
I^^al Estate a pd Ipsurai7e^ 

HOTELiS RH10> COTTAGES FOt^ t^EflT. 



HBRU ESTATE. 

Every location. 

All kinds of property for sale or rent. 

Lots of lots. 

Eligible spaces on the boardwalk. 

Suitable sites for hotels 

Terms reasonable. 

All prices. 

Titles perfect. 

Extraordinary bargains constantly on hand. 

irlSUJ^RJlCE. 

None but first-class companies represented. 

Selection can be had from i8 companies. 

Unquestionable policies. 

Rates as low as consistent with good insurance. 

All losses promptly adjusted. 

Now is the time to insure. 

Circulars sent on application. 

Everybody desiring insurance will do well to see us. 

MONEY TO LOAN ON FIRST MORTGAGES. GILT-EDGED FIRST MORT- 
GAGES FOR SALE. TITLES INSURED OR CERTIFIED SEARCHES FUR- 
NISHED. PARTIES HAVING MONEY TO LOAN, CALL AND LOOK AT OUR 
FORM OF APPLICATION. 

PROPERTY CARED FOR, AND THE INTERESTS OF PROPERTY OWNERS 
IN OCEAN CITY CHEERFULLY LOOKED AFTER WITHOUT CHARGE. 

COMMODIOUS OFFICES CONVENIENTLY LOCATED OPPOSITE THE V/. J. 
R. R. STATION. CALL AND SEE US. 

H. B. ADAMS & CO , 

•^1 REKL- • EST75TE • 75ND •• INSURANCE. 1^ 

E\(§\)t\) a\)d U/est Sts., Oeeap Qity, J^.J. 








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